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or Why I Don’t Own an E-Reader (yet) In the future there will be no need for Ray Bradbury’s book-burning firemen of Fahrenheit 451. The books will simply disappear before our eyes, or – perhaps worse – they will be edited to comply with the approved messages of the masters without our noticing. Bradbury resisted

What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because

Today the NFL Player’s Union filed to decertify. That means that the owners will likely lock out the players and then an antitrust legal case will be brought by Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Tom Brady and others. While sports writers and Monday morning quarterbacks everywhere are beginning to despair that there might not be pro

At the moment, I am surrounded by a room that looks like a bomb went off. For some reason I came home today and immediately started cleaning out closets. Perhaps an existential move. Perhaps not. Either way, the target of my cleaning proved to be drawers that hadn’t been gone through in years. My dad

Introduction It took me a long time to become an atheist. I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian household, and religion permeated my entire life into my early 20’s. My family was often in church three times a week – Sunday morning, Sunday evening, and Wednesday evening. By my early twenties, I led Bible studies